About

The Outstanding Loss Prevention Awards (OLPAs) recognise outstanding achievement in loss prevention, asset protection and profit protection across all sectors. The awards celebrate individuals, teams, organisations and technologies that demonstrate measurable impact in reducing risk, preventing loss and strengthening organisational resilience.

Our Vision

We aim for the OLPAs’ awards ceremony to become the definitive event on the calendar for loss prevention professionals. Via a principled approach to the awards we aim to bring attention to those credibly adopting innovative approaches, services and products that make a real difference.

The awards:
• Are independent, credible, transparent and respectable.
• Include a range of categories covering individuals, teams, companies, initiatives and products.
• Are based on extensive international research into the factors that drive outstanding performance
• Bring together experts to recognise and celebrate successful professionals all of whom are involved, in different ways, in loss prevention.

Our Core Values

The awards, and the principles on which they are based, have become a reference point for recognising outstanding performance. The core values are:

Independence: Those who enter don’t have to be a member of an association to be involved – anyone meeting the criteria can enter any category. The only requirement is that entrants are credible and have shown outstanding performance in their field.

Credible: The criteria for each award category are based on research to identify the characteristics of outstanding performance in the relevant area. The awards are underpinned by a strict ethics policy that seeks to ensure judging decisions are fair and impartial. Judges – generally nominated by associations and interest groups – have to agree to mark according to our published ethics policy, and that includes the requirement to declare any conflict of interest on every mark sheet.

Transparent: It is important to us for everyone to know the criteria for entering, how judges are selected and how the judging process works, so these details are published on the website.

Respectable: The core values have generated interest and respect and recognition globally, as well as opportunities, not just for the winners, but also those who are finalists.

Why Enter the OLPAs?

There are many great reasons for entering the Outstanding Loss Prevention Awards (OLPAs):

• Credibility – you will become part of an evidence-based scheme which understands what ‘outstanding performance’ in loss prevention really means, and recognises it.
• Gain Recognition and Brand Exposure – if you become a finalist, (and especially if you are a winner), you will gain both national and international recognition.
• Value – you will bring positive recognition to your own staff and welcome attention to (potential) clients, investors and other stakeholders.
• Industry Benchmarking – you will be able to set yourself apart from the competition by gaining independent recognition, from experts, who have judged you against a set of ethical standards that are industry leading.
• Business and Networking Opportunities – The OLPAs will bring together people from different industry sectors, you’ll have the chance to meet new people and make important contacts.
• Winners – The winners of the Outstanding Loss Prevention Awards will be promoted nationally and internationally.

Who Can Enter?

The awards are open to anyone working in the UK, from any sector, who meets the criteria for the relevant category.

How Do You Enter?

The entry process is straight forward with only two simple questions to answer for each category and it can all be done online.

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Our Team

Martin Gill

Founder & Director

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Christine Brooks

Event Manager

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Chloe Speakman

Event Coordinator

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Shrey Singh

Marketing & IT Lead

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Claire Tankard

Senior Administrator

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OLPAs Ethics

The aim of the OLPAs, is to be transparent and credible. In a commitment to this aim, the OLPAs have set out key ethical guidelines to ensure best practice in the running of the scheme. The OLPAs will:

Publish requirements for entry to the OLPAs.
Publish a Judges Code of Ethics and require all judges to adhere to the policy during the judging process.
Make the process for selecting the judging panel publicly available
Publish the criteria the judges use for assessing the awards.
Have a policy which clarifies the role of sponsors.

The Judging Process

Each judge is a security expert with experience and knowledge of working within that country’s security sector. Judges are shortlisted by partner organisations working with the OLPAs and are then independently reviewed by the international OLPAs team. The judges mark all entries against the criteria set out in the category requirements (viewable on the ‘Enter’ pages) and the highest scoring entry following the judging will be the winner. Entries are assigned to judges avoiding any known possible conflict of interest between entrant, judge and sponsor. All judges follow a strict code of ethics which can be found below. The finalists in each category are announced prior to the awards event; however the winner of each category will not be revealed until the awards ceremony.

Judging Panel Selection Policy

The OLPAs represents best practice in loss prevention performance and as such the OLPAs are committed to recruiting the best possible panel to review the entries entry and decide upon category winners. As such, the criteria for an OLPAs judging panel has been set out. The panel must include individuals:

with experience, knowledge and expertise in business and loss prevention
who are familiar with the industry’s culture
who have undertaken different roles in different aspects of business
who have a proven business knowledge and have been successful
who adhere to the Judges Code of Ethics

Code of Ethics

The OLPAs Code of Ethics are available to access here. Please click next and read all slides.

Judges’ Code of Ethics

The Judges’ Code of Ethics is set out to define the standards required of an OLPAs judge. This is in order to maintain the core values of integrity and impartiality. There is an obligation on all parties to observe the highest standards of integrity and all judges and officials who act on behalf of the OLPAs must accept the importance of establishing and maintaining appropriate ethical behaviour. By becoming a judge that person has agreed to the Code of Ethics. The principles that govern the judging process are as follows:

Independence – Judges’ decisions must not be based on extraneous influences, they must take no account of who the sponsors are while making decisions, and they must reject any other attempts to influence their decisions.

Integrity – Judges will act in a manner to ensure they are above reproach and act consistently in the view of fair-minded, informed people.

Diligence – Judges will commit to ensuring that all entries they receive are judged fairly and are considered equally.

Equality – Judges will carry out their reviews without discrimination.

Impartiality – Judges will remain impartial in the judging process, and review entries purely based on the quality of the evidence provided to them.

If you have any concerns regarding an OLPAs judge, then please contact us.

Entrants’ Code of Ethics

The ‘Entrants’ Code of Ethics’ is set out to define the standards required of an OLPAs participant. This is in order to maintain the values of integrity and impartiality within the awards scheme. Before submitting an entry to the awards, the conditions of entry must be read and accepted.

Conditions of Entry

Entries must be submitted through the official form on the website, by email, or through procedures set down by an official OLPAs partnership organisation.
Entrants must complete the entry form to the best of their ability and must use accurate and honest information that is relevant to the category being entered. If any information is found to be inaccurate the entrant will be disqualified.
No alterations may be made to nominations which have been submitted.
A company or individual can enter more than one award category providing all the requirements are met. The evidence presented in each award category needs to show outstanding performance in that category.
Any attempt to gain unfair advantage at any point during the process will result in immediate disqualification.
The OLPAs judging panel are responsible for awarding the winners of each category. Their decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into. The decision of the judges must be respected and by entering the OLPAs, entrants accept this condition.
Please note that we do not anonymise the entries. Our experience has led us to let the judges see the entry in full so that they can help ensure that no OLPA is awarded to anyone disreputable. That stated, please be assured that judges will mark the entry based only on the information that has been provided. By limiting the entry to short text based answers the OLPAs aims to create a level playing field, where small and large companies can compete fairly. Moreover, we have found that long answers are not necessarily good ones and being required to think about and focus on the information most relevant to the judges can be helpful; it is quality not quantity that we value.

Obligations to the OLPAs

Entrants accept that by entering the OLPAs their entry is subject to scrutiny by the OLPAs team and the judging panel.
Entrants must be prepared to respond to any queries that arise.
All entrants must accept that all those shortlisted for an OLPA will be published and that company or individual details may be used in pre-event and post-event publicity to recognise the awards.
All finalists are expected to attend the awards ceremony, or send a representative on their behalf who can collect the OLPA if they become a winner.
The OLPAs reserves the right to use all or part of the material entered in the competition for promotion of the awards and for research purposes. Under no circumstances shall the organisers be held responsible for the payment of royalties or other charges for the use of materials provided in support of the awards.
All entries become the property of the OLPAs on submission. No entries will be returned.
Entrants accept that the OLPAs team reserves the right to not award a category if circumstances deem that necessary.